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Mark Schulz; DeRome Dunn; Abhijit Duraphe; Samuel Owusu-Ofori; Ajit Kelkar; Devdas Pai; Richard Layton

some authors to mean the driving of upstreamcourse content by downstream course objectives. For example, Mahajan and Mcdonald (1997)report on their experience with a multipurpose laboratory environment where students use thesame experimental set-ups in multiple courses, and build upon the work done in previouslaboratories of the same course as well as those of previous courses. Borges et al. (1997) used aknowledge-based system to help reconfigure their school's electrical engineering curriculum suchthat there was vertical integration of the content throughout the learning modules.In the educational experiment described herein, the authors have broadened the definition ofvertical integration to include not only the use of a consistent computing

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Peter T. Cummings; Hank D. Cochran; Juan J. dePablo; Denis J. Evans; Peter A. Koen; Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos; Richard L. Rowley

Session 3513 A World Wide Web Based Textbook on Molecular Simulation Peter T. Cummings1,2, Hank D. Cochran2,1, Juan J. dePablo3, Denis J. Evans4, David A. Kofke5, Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos6, Richard L. Rowley7 1 University of Tennessee / 2Oak Ridge National Laboratory / 3 University of Wisconsin / 4Australian National University/ 5 State University of New York at Buffalo / 6University of Maryland/ 7

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E. L. Gerber

will demon-strate this process in Maple as follows, and plot both the input and Page 3.398.17output signals.> SQRW:=piecewise( t>0 and t<1,1, t>1 and t<2, -1):> C :=2*Pi*2:> B_3 := C^3/(S^3 + 2*C*S^2 + 2*C^2*S + C^3):> with(inttrans): Vin_S :=laplace(SQRW,t,S):> VO_S := (Vin_S)* (B_3):> VO_t :=invlaplace(VO_S,S,t):> plot([VO_t, SQRW], t=0..3);Fig. 14. Input and Output Signals of Third Order Filter.SUMMARYTwo years ago we implemented a new curriculum in the ECE Department. As part of the change werequire four two-credit laboratory courses in the third and fourth years of our five year Coopprogram. About one

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Charles W. P. Finn; William E. Cole

required laboratory reports to be completedwith a partner. Results have been very good and the students appreciate the changes.The second conclusion from this survey is that the computer skills we teach the students need tobe reevaluated. Computer literacy with a personal computer using applications packages is highin the required skills list. However, the traditional computer programming skills were assigned a Page 3.408.7low priority. Thus the emphasis in teaching computer literacy in MET should shift away fromthe traditional languages (C++, Visual Basic) and more toward application packages (Excel,Word, CAD, MathCad) available on a Personal

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Warren R. Hill

for specific courses. We have found that students donot mind paying course specific fees if they know that the money is being used to support thosecourses or laboratories. Our course fees are used for materials, equipment maintenance andequipment replacement. In addition, fees may be charged for things like course notes andproblem sets. While such fees may be quite small on an individual basis, in the aggregate theycan have a significant effect on current expense budgets.Another potential source of funding is through alumni. In the author’s experience, alumnigenerally feel much more connected to a college/school or to a program/department than to thelarger institution. The most fruitful source of alumni funding tends to be from those who

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Fathi Finaish

“Theoretical Considerations” givesbackground information on the material presented. It may cover the derivation of a key equationor the theoretical aspect of what is done in a given laboratory test. Under the “Required Tasks”section, a few guidelines on how to utilize the given resources in accomplishing the requiredtasks of a given step is discussed. The information is sufficient to set the students in motion andis not intended to provide instructions on how to fully complete the required design/hands-ontasks. The “Required Deliverables” section shows the students what is expected of them aftersuccessful completion of the required task. This may include several items such as a technicalmemo, plots of produced data, test results, etc. In previous

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Mulchand S. Rathod; Joella H. Gipson

Science Foundation's Advanced Technological (ATE)Program Grant # 9553692.BIBLIOGRAPHY1. Dhaka, P., Rathod, M.S., “SMARTE Facts,” v3, n1, March 13, 1996.2. Dhaka, P., Rathod, M.S., “SMARTE Facts,” v3, n6, May 29, 1996.3. Dhaka, P., Rathod, M.S., “SMARTE Facts,” v3, n8, August 1, 1996.4. Dhaka, P., Rathod, M.S., “SMARTE Facts,” v3, n12, December 15, 1996.5. Dhaka, P., Rathod, M.S., “SMARTE Facts,” v4, n3, March 10, 1997.6. Mukku, V., Rathod, M.S., “SMARTE Facts,” v4, n5, May 17, 1997.7. Mukku, V., Rathod, M.S., “SMARTE Facts,” v4, n7, July 25, 1997.8. Rathod, M.S., Gipson, J.H., “The SMARTE Enrichment Projects: Laboratory Based Learning for 8 th GradeStudents,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, June 1997.9. Genalo, L.J., et al, “Creating Web

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Michael D. Ciletti

concepts in circuittheory limit the range of probing that can occur. A software tool for introductory circuitsshould allow the instructor to establish and change component values and signal sourcesquickly, and immediately display results, without a significant risk of mistake. III. Software Support for the Circuits LaboratoryHardware laboratories can play a key role in a circuits curriculum by providing hands onexperience with actual circuits and instruments. But the availability, security, and reliability ofequipment can limit a student’s access to resources. Labs might be locked after hours, or theymight be serving other functions. Individual instruments might be broken, and componentsmight be in short supply. Even if

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William Peterson

(Monday through Thursday arethe non-traditional student preferred nights) due to half the classes having laboratory componentswhich result in many 3 credit courses meeting for five hours per week - a two hour lecture and athree hour lab.The result is that non-traditional students taking two courses are on campus three or four nights aweek for six to eight credits per semester. Since 12 credits are required for full time studentstatus, the two additional classes must be offered during the day - in this case the afternoon, sothat the class hours can be contiguous. Additionally, each course must rotate between anafternoon and an evening offering to accommodate the typical, non-traditional, part-time student.The non-traditional student, who desires

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Frank Wicks

indecision. The alternative procedure is for the student to identifying a change of operating procedures thatdefine a project and then find a faculty member to work reduced power requirements by 15 % and additionalwith. recommendations for equipment modifications and Most of the students are full time day students, but upgrades. This paper will describe this project.there are significant numbers of students who areemployed by local industries and attend part time, and 1. Introductionthese students often propose work related projects to Laboratory based research development andvarious faculty members. Such

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Randal S. Martin; Clinton P. Richardson

core environmental engineeringclasses. A total of 138 credits is divided over 52 classes, inclusive of laboratory classes. Figure 1shows NMT's most recent (1997-1998) undergraduate environmental engineering curriculum3.Although the environmental engineering curriculum at New Mexico Tech has continued to evolveover the past decade, the emphasis and the core courses have remained essentially the same. Themost significant deletions within the last few years have been the removal of Fluid and ThermalSystems, Transport Processes, Finite Element Analysis, and Case Studies in IndustrialEnvironmental Problems. Recent additions to the environmental engineering curriculum haveincluded Elementary Fluid Mechanics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Organic Chemistry

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Susan E. Babcock; Oscar Marcelo Suarez

Session 1264 Assessment of Interdiffusion Coefficient Through Spreadsheet Implementation Oscar Marcelo Suarez (†), Susan E. Babcock (‡) Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering University of Wisconsin – Madison 1509 University Ave. Madison, WI 53706AbstractIn intermediate materials science laboratory courses the analysis of experimental data is heavilydependent on the students’ proficiency in the use of commercial softwares. In such courses, thestudents

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Timothy Diemer; H. Öner Yurtseven; William R. Conrad

to degrees. By August of 1997, 148 students had completed a full twoyears of degree applicable credit on site in Malaysia and had transferred to universities inthe United States to pursue degrees in electrical or mechanical engineering.Goal: To assist in the establishment of the academic infrastructure required to establishand sustain independent academic programs.IUPUI faculty and staff members have been active participants in the development ofphysics, chemistry, and engineering laboratories, and the library design and staffing plan.Technical staff have designed and guided installation of a campus - wide network withoptions to make use of the latest techniques in instructional technology and to establishelectronic links with other

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Timothy Diemer; H. Öner Yurtseven; William R. Conrad

to degrees. By August of 1997, 148 students had completed a full twoyears of degree applicable credit on site in Malaysia and had transferred to universities inthe United States to pursue degrees in electrical or mechanical engineering.Goal: To assist in the establishment of the academic infrastructure required to establishand sustain independent academic programs.IUPUI faculty and staff members have been active participants in the development ofphysics, chemistry, and engineering laboratories, and the library design and staffing plan.Technical staff have designed and guided installation of a campus - wide network withoptions to make use of the latest techniques in instructional technology and to establishelectronic links with other

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Timothy Diemer; H. Öner Yurtseven; William R. Conrad

to degrees. By August of 1997, 148 students had completed a full twoyears of degree applicable credit on site in Malaysia and had transferred to universities inthe United States to pursue degrees in electrical or mechanical engineering.Goal: To assist in the establishment of the academic infrastructure required to establishand sustain independent academic programs.IUPUI faculty and staff members have been active participants in the development ofphysics, chemistry, and engineering laboratories, and the library design and staffing plan.Technical staff have designed and guided installation of a campus - wide network withoptions to make use of the latest techniques in instructional technology and to establishelectronic links with other

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Ben Erwin

ones such as “what are the functional requirements of education?” -the first question in a systems engineering design task. In fact, there are projects and institutesthinking in exactly this way (ASCD Systems Thinking Newsletter, 1996). Engineering and Educational Philosophy If John Dewey were opening up his famous Laboratory School today instead of 100 yearsago, the occupational theme that teachers would use to teach children "how society has grown tobe what it is" (Tanner, 1997) would not be sewing, cooking, and carpentry, but engineering.With an enormous interest in the social nature of learning and educating children that can liveand work together, Dewey certainly would have been a fan of systems

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Roman Z. Morawski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

of severe economic recession financial support (per candidateadmitted to university studies), received by higher education institutions from the Ministry ofNational Education, decreased in the period of 1990-1997 on average by more than 60%. On theother hand, academic staff, especially talented young people, are attracted by significantly highersalaries offered by private or even state-owned industrial or business enterprises.Although most academic institutions suffer from fiscal crisis, the situation of many engineeringschools is particularly difficult. The main reasons are:• higher costs of running engineering courses, compared to arts and science courses, which is mainly because of high costs of modern equipment used in laboratories

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Stephen B. Affleck; Marvin C. Gabert; Hahns J. Kuhr; Donald J. Parks

/week.TT is the estimated total time spent by the faculty member on teaching activities in hours/week.EWC is the number of equivalent work credits. (1 EWC = 3 hours/week)CN is the number of contact hours for the particular class section per week.TS is the hours of work required per contact hour for the type of section taught. For section types in our department, 3.0 is used for lecture sections and 2.0 is used for laboratory sections.The constant 0.5 and subsequent 0.5 multiplier of (AE/NS) provide the 50-50 division betweenwork which is independent of enrollment and work that increases in proportion to enrollment.AE is the actual number of students in the class section as of the official university tenth day count

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Todd Nocera; Martha Cyr; John McDonald; Chris Rogers

instrument, the students operated a Kundt’s Tube demonstrator. This demonstration has a speaker energizing the air above a pool of kerosene in a long tube. The antinodes have enough energy to kick up kerosene droplets and allow the students to see where the nodes and anti-nodes are in the tube. 7. Digital recording and aliasing Students recorded their whistle, sampling it at different frequencies to hear the effect of undersampling when they played it back (undersampling drops the whistle frequency). They also identified the frequency of their whistle using a spectrum analyzer. Figure 1: Seven Laboratory

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Dr. Martin Pike

. Again, the more specific the definition of the Page 3.192.3requirement, the lower the student and instructor frustration level. Be specific as to the sectionsof the reports and what each section should contain. Give suggestions on the process of creatingthe report. For formal laboratory reports, the author suggests that the students write the body ofreport before writing the abstract. Some instructors include a sample report to use as a guide.This is very helpful to freshman students who may never have had to do a report of this naturebefore. Third, what does the instructor consider a “professional quality” to be? The authorrequires all

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Susan L. Miertschin; Carole E. Goodson

when required. The goal was to make this communication direct and simple to understand.ImplementationStudent enrollment was completed in a traditional manner, and prior to the first class daystudents were required to attend an orientation session on campus. In addition to the initial visitto class for orientation, students were required to come to campus for a minimum of one classmeeting during the semester (this is a requirement of the Texas Higher Education CoordinatingBoard). The instructors used on-campus meetings for examinations but also to enable students touse the computer laboratories and specialized software. Tutoring was available in person, via e-mail or on the phone. One useful technique was to set up telephone office hours so

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Ahmed El-Antably; Richard E. Pfile; Maher E. Rizkalla

technology that ranges from Power Electronics, ComputerSimulation, Data Acquisition, DSP, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic, Electromagneticsand Energies, and Microprocessor Control. Normally these topics are covered in details inmore than fifteen credit hours, while using "only as needed" philosophy, we can cover whatwe need from these materials that serve an important application: Electric Vehicles. Thepaper details the contents of the course, the laboratory components utilizing an actualpropulsion system as donated from Delphi E. Inc, a subdivision of GM, and the role ofLabView as a data acquisition system. The course was offered in a senior project formatand the student satisfaction is reported here. In addition, the course is offered officially

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Dongmei Gui; Jens Jorgensen; Joseph A. Heim

realistic dataabout product design and manufacturing. If a professor in an engineering college wanted to adda benchmarking module to a class in product design, they could search the web site databases todiscover other faculty-developed classroom/laboratory course content relating to benchmarking.This would help the students understand the purpose and methodology of benchmarking. Usingother Internet tools, they could solicit case studies and examples from several companies in orderto compare and contrast benchmarking activities within different organizations.We recognize that there are proprietary and competitive issues that might limit the type andamount of information that firms could provide. However, the opportunity to draw upon actualindustrial

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Melody Ivory; Kathleen Luker; Kathleen Coppock; Erol Tutumluer; David Hill; Christine Masters; Amelia Regan; Alkim Akyurtlu; Eric Matsumoto; Sandra Shaw Courter; Sarah Pfatteicher

-Class Participation and Connecting with Students— small group discussions and “ombuds” people Kathleen Coppock, Instructor Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin at MadisonAfter EESP I had the opportunity to teach a summer laboratory capstone course for graduatingseniors in which students are divided into six-person groups to conduct a series of formalexperiments. I thought this was an ideal opportunity to turn the traditional "lecture" part of thecourse before lab work into a participatory environment where the students could discuss thetheory related to their experiments. I notified each group the day before the lab that we would bediscussing the material as a

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Parviz F. Rad; David M. Woodall

management education to practicingengineers at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL)and elsewhere, the university began the planning and development of a Master'sdegree in Engineering Management. The program was carefully constructed toinclude all the skills that practicing engineers need as they make thetransition from engineers to technical managers. The program was implementedtwo years ago and is offered to local students in Moscow, Boise, and IdahoFalls; and to outreach students practically anywhere. This program signals apioneering effort in remote delivery of a graduate program. The programstructure benefits the students by increasing the availability of courses andthe exposure to a variety of teaching

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Stephen E. Binney; Andrew C. Klein

depth.Nuclear Engineering courses comprise 32% of the required 192 quarter credit hours. Otherengineering, mathematics, and science courses constitute 46% of the curriculum, with the Page 3.270.1remaining 22% being liberal arts related. Primary components of the nuclear engineering coursesinclude radiation physics, radiation detectors and instrumentation, radiation safety, radiationdosimetry, nuclear regulations, nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear reactor analysis and laboratory,thermal hydraulics, and nuclear system design.In contrast to the Nuclear Engineering curriculum, the undergraduate Radiation Health Physicsprogram is less math-intensive and focuses

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James V. Masi

year, and either semester senior year. The studentsare first given a lecture on diffusion. The juniors and seniors should have already had alaboratory experiment on metallography and sample preparation. Safe laboratory practiceshould be observed at all times (eg. Goggles, gloves, aprons, etc.).Objectives:The objectives of these experiments are to show that the subject of diffusion is not reallyso hard to understand and that it plays an important role in our daily lives. Diffusion ofmolecules through the air can be determined using our sense of smell. Liquid diffusioncan be observed using a paper towel or ink in water. Solid diffusion can be observed bymeasuring the movement of the coloration of a dopant ion in a glass stirring rod or dyesin

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Michael Khader

telecommunication fundamentals, networking, opticalfiber communications, wireless, are offered in the program. The specialization courses arefocused on industry practices, state of the art technologies, laboratory work, leadership as well asmanagerial skills. To keep the program focused and current, we had to balance two competing dynamics.One is how fast we need to change the curricula, and the second is making the program stable forboth faculty and students. Balancing these two forces is not always an easy task, but continuousre-evaluation seemed to give encouraging results. Re-evaluation is a continuous process of Page 3.290.2assessments and

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Barry M. Lunt; C. Richard Helps

studyhabits, test-taking skills, taking notes, and campus resources. This section also brings in theopportunity to discuss those general things that senior students know and wish they had knownfrom the beginning. Students also learn simple laboratory skills such as breadboarding (by breadboarding asimple 1-stage audio amplifier), soldering (by building a circuit board with a simple blinkingLED circuit), and microprocessor programming (by modifying a simple melody program in amicrocontroller programmed in BASIC). A final effort to assist students in learning about engineering as a profession is providedin a class session known as “A day in the life.” In this session, students come to class dressed asthey would on the job. They engage in

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Peter W. de Graaf; Michael J. Walker; Cameron Wright; Thad Welch

students focus on memorizing these facts and formulas and how to usethem to solve specific problems. The focus of their efforts tends to be the problems presentedthrough examples in assigned readings, homework, and laboratory exercises. They concentrateon learning very specific applications of the concepts and ideas presented in the course. Thisapproach to learning gives the students a very narrow view of the material presented in aparticular course.This problem is of particular concern in an environment where the student has a limited amountof time to devote to a particular course. In this case, the student will prioritize the focus ofhis/her study efforts to concentrate on those areas that seem most likely to appear on anexamination. In essence